Open manufacturing in the context of Do it Together

Type of course:

Digital learning, Lesson

Language:

Duration:

12 minutes

Workload:

2 hours

Proficiency:

Intermediate

Target:

Professionals

Open manufacturing is the second main process in the Do It Together approach, after co-creation.

The co-creation process allows customers and designers to work together to generate design and manufacturing data.

The open manufacturing process aims to transform this virtual data into a physical product close to the customer. This poses a number of steps and technological and organisational challenges, which are discussed in this Nugget.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, learners can explain what open-manufacturing is by describing the expected activities within the production step of the Do it together process.
By the end of the module, learners can give examples of the implementation of the open-manufacturing phase in terms of tools, software and organisation to support the process
By the end of the module, learners can describe the main challenges of the open manufacturing process for implementing the Do It Together process